Tonight ABC News will be airing a story on victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that left 13 victims dead and 32 wounded. Kimberly Munley, a hero on that terrible day who sat next to Michelle Obama at the President’s 2010 State of the Union, tells Diane Sawyer that she feels the government has “betrayed” her and fellow victims.

The issue for the shooting victims is that the Pentagon has insisted on treating the episode as an instance of “workplace violence,” not terrorism. (As I have written here .) The problem here is: Most workplace shooters were not first in touch with Anwar al-Awlaki.

One shooting victim told ABC the “workplace violence” designation has cost him almost $70,000 in benefits that would have been available if his injuries were classified as “combat related.”

“Basically, they’re treating us like I was downtown and I got hit by a car,” he told ABC News.

The military’s position on the shooting is schizophrenic. On the one hand, the Obama adminstration has taken the position that it had the authority to authorizing the targeted killing of Awlaki becuase he was a terrorist and threat to the United States. On the other hand, the government will not recognize the terrorist’s role in the horrific bloodletting. And who pays? Men and women whom I believe Nidal Hasan shot because they were serving their country. (Note: In the U.S. legal system, Hasan is innocent until proven guilty. But the military would not allow Hasan to plead guilty.) And so a trial that should have been settled already, drags on.